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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

A Caliph Without a Caliphate: The Biography of ISIS’s New Leader

The Biography of ISIS's Leader

Documents and pictures, made public in English by New Lines for the first time, that indicate Qardash was in fact a leading figure among Iraqi jihadist groups over the past two decades who has steadily worked his way up the security and religious hierarchy within the Islamic State group.

The Caliph of Lisson Green

The Caliph of Lisson Green

Opportunities to meet a caliph are pretty rare. Yet in London in the 1990s, you could bump into a protector of the entire Muslim world on the Central line. He wore no finery, of course, and his palace was a two-bedroom government apartment in Dagenham.